Catalyst - A Wilson School Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
922924408
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Petaluma, CA, USA
Phone
7075294974
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Single Organization Support

Reported finances

Revenue
$142,954
Expenses
$81,301
Assets
$206,267

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Mary Cervantes (Vice President)
  • Janelle Robello (President)

People named in this filing

  • Desiree Libarle (Officer)
  • Lauren Weber (Treasurer)
  • Andrea Christensen (Secretary)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Catalyst: A Wilson School Foundation supports and enhances educational opportunities for students at Wilson School by funding academic enrichment, classroom resources, family engagement activities, and community-building initiatives.

What it reported doing in 2025

Program 1: Classroom & Teacher Support. The foundation provided direct financial support to classroom teachers to enhance student learning. This included reimbursements for instructional materials and supplies, facility improvements, and awards/scholarships benefiting students.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 92% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 87% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 63
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 74
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 49.3%; rating input score 49
  • Program expense ratio: 86.6%; rating input score 87

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 43.1%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.54; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 88.1% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 31.7% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 53.1% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 49.3% of revenue deployed · 86.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $70K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.